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My family will accept any excuse to get together and party. Festivals, birthdays and anniversaries are celebrated with gusto, but that’s not all. Someone got a promotion, lets party! Uncle got a new TV? Lets get together and watch TV and eat lots of good food! Aunt V is back from a visit to Aunt M, lets get together to hear all the gossip and eat lots of good food. Cousins are visiting for a week. Lets have dinner together… everyday. They love getting together so much, sometimes they have a potluck just because they haven’t had a chance to get together in a few weeks.

Needless to say, the highlight of each of these gatherings is food (no wonder I turned out like I did). Menus are discussed at length when there are going to be a series of dinner parties and a great deal of effort is taken to ensure that a wide variety of food is prepared. Menus are a subject of much anticipation and my mother for one goes to great lengths to keep hers a secret on special occasions. Continue reading →

So, the chutney mania continues. I never can make just the right amount of chutney. My blender is partly to blame (yes, I am not above shifting the blame on to inanimate objects). It just doesn’t do a very good job with small quantities. So I always end up with bucket loads of chutney and then for a week or more, my menus revolve around it. I started with the Gola Bhaat, then made aalu parathas and umpteen chutney and cucumber sandwiches. And there was still plenty left. I needed something that would finally finish it, so that I could look beyond chutney, and not have a tiny green voice whispering in my ear ‘Don’t forget me‘ everytime I thought about what to make for dinner. I half-longed for my chutney-free days. Then I hit upon this recipe. And yet as I spooned the last of the green goodness onto the chicken, I felt a brief, mad qualm – no more chutney?! Oh how would life be the same without any more chutney in my fridge?

Like this:

This is the same green chutney that I made for the Gola Bhaat. I’m giving it its own space here because I do believe it deserves it.

It’s a versatile little thing, adding zing to a lot of dishes as it sits inconspicuously on the side and steps up to add flavour to bland food. Or even tasty food. Have it with kababs, or make chutney sandwiches, add it to chaat or eat it with pulav. My favourite little chutney – easy to whip up and oh so spicy! Continue reading →